Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 76 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -28
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,070 1,814 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.95% 3.63% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 4.07% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 871 1,620
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £92,783 £91,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,124 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.54% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 1,809 £75,000 +3.45% 1,749
UK excluding London -28 1,130 £66,124 -5.54% 751
Work from Home -17 879 £67,500 -3.57% 811
London -20 801 £85,000 +6.25% 1,188
North of England -39 373 £70,000 - 221
South East +37 321 £65,000 -7.14% 182
North West -49 199 £75,000 +7.14% 121
South West -19 129 £57,500 -4.17% 77
Midlands -58 107 £67,500 - 90
North East +20 96 £65,000 +18.18% 41
Yorkshire +5 78 £65,000 -7.14% 59
West Midlands -34 77 £80,000 +14.29% 58
Northern Ireland -16 64 £60,000 +33.33% 38
Wales -18 58 £68,750 +32.21% 17
East of England -31 46 £60,100 -3.84% 36
Scotland -49 34 £60,000 -24.44% 95
East Midlands -57 30 £64,000 +6.67% 32
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (1.88%) Confluence
2 28 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 17 (0.82%) Apache
4 16 (0.77%) CMS
5 14 (0.68%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) JBoss
8 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.39%) WordPress
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.24%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.097%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (50.82%) AWS
2 885 (42.75%) Azure
3 326 (15.75%) GCP
4 268 (12.95%) Serverless
5 251 (12.13%) GitHub
6 193 (9.32%) SaaS
7 182 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 126 (6.09%) Amazon S3
10 110 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 108 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
12 104 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 84 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
15 72 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
17 63 (3.04%) Azure AKS
18 53 (2.56%) PaaS
19 52 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.22%) Broadband
2 24 (1.16%) Network Security
3 15 (0.72%) DNS
4 14 (0.68%) MQTT
5 13 (0.63%) DMARC
6 9 (0.43%) HTTP
7 8 (0.39%) AMQP
7 8 (0.39%) Internet
7 8 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.39%) VPN
8 7 (0.34%) Firewall
8 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.29%) DHCP
9 6 (0.29%) RFID
10 4 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.14%) Modbus
11 3 (0.14%) NAS
11 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 2 (0.097%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (14.73%) MongoDB
2 230 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (9.71%) NoSQL
4 167 (8.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 161 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
6 125 (6.04%) SQL Server
7 119 (5.75%) MySQL
8 97 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.38%) Redis
10 55 (2.66%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.40%) Big Data
13 19 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 271 (13.09%) Git
2 188 (9.08%) GitLab
3 165 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.09%) JUnit
5 61 (2.95%) JIRA
6 53 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 48 (2.32%) Cucumber
8 39 (1.88%) Mockito
9 37 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 30 (1.45%) Maven
12 25 (1.21%) Selenium
13 22 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.87%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.82%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.72%) Postman
16 15 (0.72%) Spock
17 14 (0.68%) JMeter
18 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
19 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 525 (25.36%) Finance
2 411 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 213 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.94%) Banking
5 149 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 149 (7.20%) Law
6 138 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 116 (5.60%) Retail
8 84 (4.06%) Legal
9 63 (3.04%) Marketing
10 61 (2.95%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.03%) Back Office
12 36 (1.74%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
15 25 (1.21%) Games
16 21 (1.01%) Advertising
17 20 (0.97%) Front Office
18 16 (0.77%) Manufacturing
18 16 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 768 (37.10%) Developer
2 497 (24.01%) Senior
3 373 (18.02%) Software Engineer
4 349 (16.86%) Lead
5 296 (14.30%) Architect
6 206 (9.95%) .NET Developer
7 182 (8.79%) Senior Developer
8 167 (8.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 156 (7.54%) Java Developer
10 130 (6.28%) Java Engineer
11 123 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 122 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (4.06%) Software Developer
16 78 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
17 74 (3.57%) Lead Developer
18 72 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 56 (2.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (26.96%) .NET
2 442 (21.35%) React
3 430 (20.77%) Node.js
4 352 (17.00%) Spring
5 319 (15.41%) Spring Boot
6 303 (14.64%) RESTful
7 286 (13.82%) REST
8 264 (12.75%) Kafka
9 248 (11.98%) ASP.NET
10 230 (11.11%) .NET Core
11 222 (10.72%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.48%) Vue
13 199 (9.61%) ASP.NET Core
14 119 (5.75%) Blazor
15 105 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (4.73%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.59%) HTML
18 92 (4.44%) CSS
19 83 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
20 80 (3.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 639 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 358 (17.29%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 109 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
5 108 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 45 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 36 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 34 (1.64%) e-Learning
13 31 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
14 27 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
14 27 (1.30%) Over-the-Top Content
15 26 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.16%) Management Information System
17 23 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.67%) Linux
2 51 (2.46%) Windows
3 22 (1.06%) CentOS
3 22 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.01%) Unix
5 8 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.29%) Android
7 5 (0.24%) AIX
7 5 (0.24%) Debian
7 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.097%) VMS
9 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,078 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 986 (47.63%) Agile
3 729 (35.22%) Software Engineering
4 728 (35.17%) DevOps
5 583 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 505 (24.40%) Mentoring
7 445 (21.50%) Event-Driven
8 443 (21.40%) AI
9 430 (20.77%) Containerisation
10 416 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 408 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 406 (19.61%) Test Automation
13 374 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
14 293 (14.15%) Technical Leadership
15 289 (13.96%) Scrum
16 279 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 249 (12.03%) TDD
18 233 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
19 224 (10.82%) Observability
20 223 (10.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 693 (33.48%) Java
2 580 (28.02%) C#
3 507 (24.49%) SQL
4 481 (23.24%) Python
5 465 (22.46%) JavaScript
6 382 (18.45%) TypeScript
7 104 (5.02%) Go
8 56 (2.71%) Ruby
9 45 (2.17%) C++
10 42 (2.03%) Bash
11 39 (1.88%) PHP
12 37 (1.79%) Scala
13 28 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.26%) Bicep
15 24 (1.16%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.06%) Rust
17 20 (0.97%) C
17 20 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.63%) Groovy
19 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 295 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 197 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.23%) Degree
4 84 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 84 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 72 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 46 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.50%) CISSP
8 29 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 18 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.82%) CISM
11 14 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.48%) MBA
12 10 (0.48%) PhD
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (10.24%) QA
2 87 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (1.64%) GDPR
4 34 (1.64%) WCAG
5 19 (0.92%) NIST
6 17 (0.82%) NCSC
6 17 (0.82%) SOC 2
7 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.58%) GRC
9 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 591 (28.55%) Docker
2 37 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 624 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 365 (17.63%) Terraform
3 113 (5.46%) Ansible
4 92 (4.44%) Grafana
5 55 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.26%) Argo
7 25 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.92%) Puppet
9 16 (0.77%) Kibana
10 11 (0.53%) Cilium
11 6 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.24%) Podman
13 4 (0.19%) Packer
14 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.097%) MIIS
15 2 (0.097%) Rancher
16 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
16 1 (0.048%) Istio
16 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 330 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.69%) Google
3 68 (3.29%) Oracle
4 39 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 37 (1.79%) Splunk
6 28 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.30%) Typelevel
8 23 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 23 (1.11%) IBM
8 23 (1.11%) Okta
9 22 (1.06%) ForgeRock
10 21 (1.01%) Databricks
11 14 (0.68%) OneLogin
11 14 (0.68%) SAP
12 13 (0.63%) Adobe
12 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.53%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.39%) OpenText